>Anyone experienced with RSS..?

myblueshoes · Oct 12, 2004

I'd like to try RSS in my site to give it some usful info.

Can anyone give me some tips on how to imbed RSS, where to put the agregator, files, code, etc. in the webpage and on the host server?

please break it down for me - it will be my first.

Tks :-D

Corey Bryant · Oct 12, 2004

You might check out these sites for starters:
http://www.webreference.com/authoring/languages/xml/rss/intro/
http://www.zvon.org/Documents/d2/aboutRSS.html

myblueshoes · Oct 13, 2004

Alright- many thanks!

(I took a tour of these sites and I'm still a bit clueless- but w/ some time, I'll get it.)

harleyx · Oct 13, 2004

LTmaster said:
Alright- many thanks!

(I took a tour of these sites and I'm still a bit clueless- but w/ some time, I'll get it.)

Here's a couple scripts for putting some rss on your site. One is very simple, but only works for 1 feed. The other is somewhat more complex, but still very cookbook in the setup and administration.

Both are written by programmers I have known for a long time, and both are very nice scripts.

Mark's script, multiple feeds, nice administration panel, runs on php/mysql
http://www.neonbubble.com/?postid=10

Jay's script, quick and easy, works for one rss feed, runs on php, no database needed
http://www.gtds.net/jaysin-rss.txt

Sharpy · Oct 13, 2004

I use rss equalizer. It cost me $97 but it's well worth it. Can be used on any # of sites. You can choose the news feed. here's www.chubby.org using the yahoo news feed and the keyword "diets" The content is always fresh.

Click on the "Powered by RSS Equalizer" link(aff) at the bottom of chubby for more info

myblueshoes · Oct 14, 2004

harleyx said:
Here's a couple scripts for putting some rss on your site. One is very simple, but only works for 1 feed. The other is somewhat more complex, but still very cookbook in the setup and administration.

Both are written by programmers I have known for a long time, and both are very nice scripts.

Mark's script, multiple feeds, nice administration panel, runs on php/mysql
http://www.neonbubble.com/?postid=10

Jay's script, quick and easy, works for one rss feed, runs on php, no database needed
http://www.gtds.net/jaysin-rss.txt

THanks- let's take the simple one (Jay's) the script mentions:
"in the .php file" & "where you want the RSS to show up"

where does this script go (or is it two parts put together)?
do I have to create a .php and upload it to my mysql server- then put a portion of the code where the rss will apear in the page? as you can see, I have no clue how to get this babby going- any help to get me started

harleyx · Oct 14, 2004

It's very easy, just cut and paste the function code above the <html> tag in whatever file you wish to display the feed, like this:

Code:

<?
function RSSFeeds($newsfeed){
$fp = @fopen($newsfeed, 'r');
while(!feof($fp)){
  $row .= @fgets($fp, 4096);
}
@fclose($fp);
if( eregi('<item>(.*)</item>', $row, $rowitem ) ) {
$item = explode('<item>', $rowitem[0]);
for( $i = 0; $i < count($item) - 1; $i++ ) {
  eregi('<title>(.*)</title>', $item[$i+1], $title );
  eregi('<link>(.*)</link>', $item[$i+1], $link );
  eregi('<description>(.*)</description>', $item[$i+1], $description);
  echo '<a href="' . $link[1] . '">' . $title[1] . '</a> - ' .
$description[1] . '<br />';
}}}
?>

<html>
<head>
<title>Title</title>
</head>
<body>
Yada Yada
Here's where I want my feed, so I use this php code:<br>
<? RSSFeeds("http://www.gtds.net/rss.php"); ?>
<br>
More stuff here<br>
</body>
</html>

You'd just need to replace the feed in there with whatever feed you wanted to display. Nothin to it =P

myblueshoes · Jan 5, 2005

harleyx said:

It's very easy, just cut and paste the function code above the <html> tag in whatever file you wish to display the feed, like this:

Code:

<?
function RSSFeeds($newsfeed){
$fp = @fopen($newsfeed, 'r');
while(!feof($fp)){
  $row .= @fgets($fp, 4096);
}
@fclose($fp);
if( eregi('<item>(.*)</item>', $row, $rowitem ) ) {
$item = explode('<item>', $rowitem[0]);
for( $i = 0; $i < count($item) - 1; $i++ ) {
  eregi('<title>(.*)</title>', $item[$i+1], $title );
  eregi('<link>(.*)</link>', $item[$i+1], $link );
  eregi('<description>(.*)</description>', $item[$i+1], $description);
  echo '<a href="' . $link[1] . '">' . $title[1] . '</a> - ' .
$description[1] . '<br />';
}}}
?>

<html>
<head>
<title>Title</title>
</head>
<body>
Yada Yada
Here's where I want my feed, so I use this php code:<br>
<? RSSFeeds("http://www.gtds.net/rss.php"); ?>
<br>
More stuff here<br>
</body>
</html>

You'd just need to replace the feed in there with whatever feed you wanted to display. Nothin to it =P

Harley,

- I've been on a hiatus for a while

Thanks for your help above, BUT

I have tried and tried and even following your simple instructions have not yet been able to resolve RSS in my webpage.

This is not advertising (there's nothing to buy here) : www.myblueshoes.com

The script is there- RSS Feed is not.

Tell me, do I need a .php file or special server - side requirements/ type of server, etc.

Hoping to get to the bottom of this!

Thanks- again!

MediaHound · Jan 5, 2005

Thats because that page is index.html
What you need to do, is add this line to your .htaccess file.
AddType application/x-httpd-php .html .htm .php

Then watch the magic happen.
Be careful overwriting your .htaccess file if your using frontpage to edit your site,
dont just create a file called .htaccess and upload it.
First see if you can edit it by hand from your control panel file manager.

harleyx · Jan 6, 2005

The simplest solution would be to change the file extention (index.php instead of index.html). Won't affect your html, but it will allow for parsing of php code.

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